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RUDOK , a small See also:town on the Ladakh frontier of See also:Tibet, through which all the See also:trade of Tibet passes to See also:Leh, and at which is maintained the See also:Chinese'outpost that for many years persistently interfered with See also:European exploration. Rudok is picturesquely situated on the See also:side of a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill See also:standing isolated in the See also:plain near the E. end of See also:Lake Pangong, across which the See also:official boundary between Tibet and See also:Kashmir runs. The houses are built in tiers, whitewashed and walled in. At the See also:top of the hill are a large See also:palace and several monasteries painted red. About a mile away from the See also:foot of the hill is another monastery. Rudok is about 13,300 ft. above See also:sea-level, and the greatest See also:altitude on the route connecting it with See also:Lhasa at the pass of Mariom la (the See also:water-parting between the See also:Brahmaputra and the See also:Sutlej) is 15,500 ft. The See also:winter See also:climate of Rudok and of all the towns of the Tsangpo See also:basin, owing to the intense dryness of the See also:air and the See also:light fall of See also:snow, seems to be bracing and exhilarating rather than severe. The thermometer never approaches the minimum See also:record of Puetra (in the same See also:latitude and at See also:half the See also:absolute See also:elevation), according to the observations of native surveyors.
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